The Politics of Vaccination : a Global History /

Mass vaccination campaigns are political projects that presume to protect individuals, communities, and societies. Like other pervasive expressions of state power - taxing, policing, conscripting - mass vaccination arouses anxiety in some people but sentiments of civic duty and shared solidarity in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Holmberg (ed.), Christine (Author), Blume (ed.), Stuart (Author), Greenough (ed.), Paul (Author)
Corporate Author:	Oxford University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	[Manchester, Eng.] : Manchester University Press, ©2017.
Series:	Social histories of medicine.
Subjects:	Vaccination > History. Vaccination. Vaccination Vaccination > Histoire. Medicine. Medicine: general issues. History of medicine. MEDICAL > General. History. Immunisation. Public Health. Social and Cultural History. Electronic books. History
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Paul Greenough, Stuart Blume and Christine Holmberg Part I: Vaccination and national identity 1. The uneasy politics of epidemic aid: the CDC's mission to Cold War East Pakistan, 1958
Paul Greenough 2. Fallacy, sacrilege, betrayal and conspiracy
the cultural construction of opposition to immunisation in India
Niels Brimnes 3. Vaccination and the communist state: polio in Eastern Europe
Dora Vargha 4. 'A vaccine for the nation': South Korea's development of a hepatitis B vaccine and national prevention strategy focused on newborns
Eun Kyung Choi and Young-Gyung Paik Part II: Nationality, vaccine production, and the end of sovereign manufacture 5. Vaccine production, national security anxieties and the unstable state in nineteenth and twentieth century Mexico
Ana María Carrillo 6. The erosion of public sector vaccine production: the case of the Netherlands
Stuart Blume 7. Yellow fever vaccine in Brazil: fighting a tropical scourge, modernising the nation -Jaime Benchimol 8. A distinctive nation: vaccine policy and production in Japan
Julia Yongue Part III: Vaccination, the individual, and society 9. The MMR debate in the United Kingdom: vaccine scares, statesmanship and the media
Andrea Stöckl and Anna Smajdor 10. Pandemic flus and vaccination policies in Sweden
Britta Lundgren and Martin Holmberg 11. Polio vaccination, political authority, and the Nigerian state
Elisha Renne Afterword 12. The power of individuals and the dependency of nations in global eradication and immunisation campaigns
Bill Muraskin Index.